David and Goliath

I Just read the entire story of David and Goliath in the bible. This story has touched me in ways I could not imagine. Goliath, a champion Philistine giant, challenged all of the Israelites in an effort to subject them to servitude. Out of all of the Israelites, David, a young boy who looked after his father's sheep, volunteered to battle him. David had encountered bears and lions while watching sheep herds, and was confident that the hand of the Lord had saved him from them all. This was enough to assure David that the Lord would deliver him from ANYONE who challenged his people. I would encourage you to read the entire chapter of I Samuel 17 and get into the mind frame of David. The mind that has all confidence and trust that the Lord will fight every one of your battles, and provide victory for his chosen people. Pay attention to how David spoke his enemy's defeat into existence, detailing what his plan of defeat <--- all to the Glory of God. Sometimes you have to SPEAK to your challenges and let them know that you are victorious, that you claim victory and triumph over everything that sets itself up against you.

I Samuel 17:41-47 41 "Meanwhile, the Philistine (Goliath), with his shield bearer in front of him, kept coming closer to David. He looked David over and saw that he was only a boy, ruddy and handsome, and he despised him. He said to David, "Am I a dog, that you come at me with sticks?" And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. "Come here," he said, "and I'll give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!"

David said to the Philistine, "You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the LORD will hand you over to me, and I'll strike you down and cut off your head. Today I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORD's, and he will give all of you into our hands."